Country Garden Design in Byron Bay
Designed From Paddock to Foreshore
Secure your country garden design consultation and receive a masterplan drawn from your land's pastures, waterways, dunes and subtropical climate.
No obligation to build with Gondwana.
28+ Years Experience
5 Star Rated
In-House Landscape Designers
Remote Project Management Available
Country Garden Design Starts with a Conversation with the Land
After 28 years and hundreds of landscaping projects across Byron Bay, Gondwana does one thing before anything else: we read the land.
Whether your property runs beef cattle on pasture, grows local produce for the market, or meets the mangrove-lined estuary, your garden design will be drawn from the block's aspect, soil, salty coastal winds and existing ecology. The result is a garden that ages with the land rather than against it.
The Byron Shire, From Pasture to Point
Drive inland from Byron Bay and the rolling hills give way to verdant valleys before the land drops toward the mangrove-lined estuary and dunes. Rainbow lorikeets move through the eucalypts at dusk, and beef cattle graze pasture fed paddocks within sight of a rainforest gully.
Gondwana designs and constructs country gardens to connect to the natural beauty of its surrounds.
With Gondwana, You'll Receive:
Your Vision Amplified
The Gondwana design process reveals a buildable vision, from the formal garden at the homestead to the paddock fence line.
A Landscape Designed for Your Climate
Every design decision reflects local knowledge of native plants suited to the site conditions.
Complete Design Documentation
A masterplan, planting plan, materials palette, levels plan, drainage design and construction documentation you own.
Design for Scale and Serenity
Imagine an arrival sequence that moves past a poultry run and a kitchen garden before opening onto green lawns and a pool framed by cycads, palms and ferns. A fire pit at the edge of a cleared paddock, beef cattle grazing pasture fed just beyond the fence line.
Native windbreaks that hold their shape against the salty coastal winds. Stonework feels as though it has always been there. Winding gravel paths inviting exploration between the gardens beds and pool.
Designing with sensitivity to a farm or coastal block means allowing the context of the land, and the life on it, to unfold.
Our Design Process
3 Steps to Your Designed Country Garden
A transparent, structured consultation process from first site visit to handover.
Step 1: Site Visit and Analysis
Mark meets you on-site to walk the land. Your vision explored, the Gondwana approach applied to uncover the hidden opportunity in your block.
Step 2: Design Development and Masterplan
You receive a concept design plan with 3D perspectives, a curated materials palette and a planting plan for review.
Step 3: Landscape Construction
Your approved design becomes reality. We handle the project from earthworks to the final plant. Relax in your completed paradise.
Materials are selected from the local region. Ideas are drawn from the land itself. The result is a landscape that belongs to its place.
PROJECT FEATURE: BLACK MYRTLE COURT
How we Re-wilded an Elevated Acreage from Raw Land
The Black Myrtle Court block sat above open, rolling hill country, connecting to bushlands.
Gondwana rebuilt the arrival sequence with sweeping dry stone retaining walls that hold the driveway into the hillside, then let a native planting palette of kangaroo paw, ornamental grasses and mounded groundcovers roll down the slope as though it had always grown there.
A dry creek swale, crossed by a timber bridge, now carries stormwater away. An edible garden sits close to the kitchen door, easy to duck out to, while a circular fire pit terrace, cut into the slope, was positioned to hold the best of the property's rolling valley views.
The Result
WHAT WE DESIGN & BUILD FOR YOUR COUNTRY GARDEN
Complete Country Garden Services for Byron Shire Properties
Who We Work With
Gondwana Farm and Coastal Garden Design Is for You If...
You want to rewild the land
Restore local biodiversity and establish wildlife corridors.
You want a farm that feels considered
A masterplan that zones the productive from the formal garden.
You feel overwhelmed with the scale
Your vision is given a clear direction.
You have a drainage, erosion or salty wind problem
A site analysis is the starting point for your landscape design.
Featured Projects Across the Byron Shire
See These Country Garden Designs That Changed the Way Our Clients Connect with The Land
Our garden design gallery spans acreage properties from pastures to dunes across the Byron Bay Shire.
COUNTRY GARDEN DESIGNS
A Gondwana Masterplan Gives Your Land a Clear Vision Before Construction Begins
Receive professionally documented garden design you can build whenever the time is right, with any builder you choose.
What you walk away with:
Many Gondwana clients use their masterplan for DA submissions, property sales or simply to have a considered acreage garden design in place long before construction conversations begin.
HIGHEST QUALITY ACREAGE GARDEN DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION IN BYRON BAY AND THE NORTHERN RIVERS
About Us
The Team Behind Gondwana Landscaping and Stone
Founded by Mark Smith, a skilled landscape designer and stonemason with over 28 years of experience, Gondwana Landscaping and Stone is built on connecting to country.
Mark and his team are recognised across the Byron Shire for acreage garden designs that reflect a deep knowledge of the region's subtropical conditions, its pasture and produce, and its relationship with the land.
What It Is Like To Work with Gondwana
From the initial consultation to the final handover, our clients are extremely satisfied with the results.
Mark was a pleasure to work with and took my vision and added to it with his experience and knowledge. He was always pleasant, communicative and responsive and the final product is amazing. I would highly recommend him to work on any landscaping dreams you have.
Verified Customer
Mark and his team did an amazing job landscaping an area for my sauna. He was professional, creative and a pleasure to work with. The results were beyond my expectations. And although we ended up using more materials than his quote called for, the time it took was less so overall the invoice was around 10% less than the quote!
I Would totally recommend Mark.
Verified Customer
Janine Crampton
This is the second time Mark has done work for me and I wouldn’t go to anyone else for my landscaping needs. He really knows his stuff, understanding what I wanted even when I wasn’t quite sure myself, and was respectful of the limitations of my budget. His team is a pleasure to have around and I couldn’t be happier with the end result of their work.
Verified Customer
Jamie Smallwood
Gondwana Landscaping- Hands down, best team in town! Mark takes landscape design to the next level, as far as art installations. Which will add that final touch to your property.
I had Gondwana transform my outdoor living areas; paving, fire pit, and gardens. Highlights being the epic stacked stone walls meandering through the gardens, Mark’s stone masonry skills are exceptional.
I highly recommend Mark and the team at Gondwana for the full spectrum of professionalism and execution of any sized project.
Verified Customer
Frequently asked questions
Ready to Give Your Land the Design It Deserves?
Start with a consultation to see if Gondwana is the right fit.
- Concept design with 3D perspectives
- Construction-ready masterplan and full documentation
- Native and productive planting plan, drainage design and levels plan
Limited availability as Mark personally attends every site visit.
OR Call Gondwana directly on 0466 227 794
